Collection Highlights
The Assassination of President Lincoln, at Ford's Theater, Washington D.C. April 14th 1865
Date:
1865
Object Number:
PR.052.60
Medium:
Paper
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The Dismemberment of Poland
Object Number:
1941.127
Date:
ca. 1815
Medium:
Cotton
Dimensions:
Overall: 21 1/2 x 22 1/4 in. ( 54.6 x 56.5 cm )
Marks:
printed: in medallions: "The Polish Revolution, one/ equally happy as honerable both to Kings People,/ has for its Era the memorable 3rd of May 1791./ ..."
Description:
Copperplate-printed cotton kerchief with a central vignette with the personification of Poland being picked apart by vultures; surrounded by portraits of Gen. Washington, Gen. LaFayette, Gen. Kosciusko, and the King of Poland as well as armorial style groupings suspended from garlands and two medallions filled with text; red ink printed on white ground; decorative border.
Gallery Label:
The dismemberment of Poland by the Congress of Vienna occured on June 9, 1815.
Bibliography:
Herbert Ridgeway Collins, Threads of History: Americana Recorded on Cloth, 1775 to the Present (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1979), 60.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. J. Insley Blair
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
